Ok... I KNOW i made a post to this thread, but it seems to not be here, so maybe i dreamed I did, lol!

Thank you ALL for your fabulous advice. Yes I have been practising breathing and positions and calming things ect.

Taking the teddy for sure :P

thats an idea about telling them I dissociate.. a split in the middle of childbirth could be very, very scary!

not much time right now but I will post more later.